Cultural Politics… Mao Zedong, Jiang Qing, and Vietnam in 1965 1 Mar 2022 On 2 June 1965, Mao Zedong arrived in Hangzhou, where he read a journal article which interested him greatly. Entitled “Looking at US Expansion of the Vietnam War from the…
China… Rethinking Mao’s Role in the Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries 4 Nov 2014 What are the origins of state terror? How do we disentangle the consolidation of Mao’s personalism and the consolidation of the general power of the CCP? How do we treat…
Chinese communist party… Mao Zedong as a Father: Nianpu Notes from January 1951 19 Mar 201419 Mar 2014 In the six big volumes of Mao Zedong Nianpu (1949-1976) published in Beijing this past December 2013, a number of new texts can be located, and minor mysteries solved. I was fortunate…
American Foreign Policy… 33 Questions on The History of Modern Tibet 6 Jun 20116 Jun 2011 Here on Sinologistical Violoncellist, the subject of Tibet seems to be coming up with greater frequency, as it ought to. After all, the Dalai Lama remains floating through the universe…
Tibet… Dalai Lama in Long Beach, California 4 May 20114 May 2011 In the orbit of the greater Los Angeles area, Long Beach serves a peculiar, often gritty, and vital function. A few months ago I experienced enlightenment in Long Beach thanks…
China… Contested Era, Blossoming Memory: Reconsidering the Early 1950s in the Present PRC 1 Nov 201014 Feb 2014 In walking around Chinese book markets, perusing Chinese newspapers, talking to Chinese scholars and intellectuals, and just plain thinking here in the PRC, the remarkable fact emerges of the enormous…
Korean War… Lin Biao’s Dissent on the Korean War 12 Mar 201012 Mar 2010 In a country and political system where history thrums deeply with contemporary political connotations, it may be interesting to note that, after an orgy of publishing since 1990 about the…
China… Mao/Hitler//Mao/Deng//PRC/Germany: Sidney Rittenberg Interview with Der Spiegel 24 Nov 2009 This entire interview is worth checking out; it is buttressed by some historical background in German but the English dialogue with Sidney Rittenberg comes through quite clearly. http://www.spiegel.de/video/video-1023600.html
China… Le Dernier Jours du Pekin: French Reads 18 Nov 200918 Nov 2009 My title today comes from a romantic, fin-de-siecle French account of the Boxer Rebellion, when the walled city of Beijing seemed to be Ground Zero for Armageddon. But my double…
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